Bill Text: NY S01896 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to assault in the third degree by a person against an operator, driver or passenger on a bus, taxicab, aerial tramway, subway or other motor vehicle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S01896 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01896-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1896

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in  relation  to  assault  in  the  third
          degree

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 120.00 of the penal law is  renum-
     2  bered  subdivision  4,  and  a  new  subdivision  3  is added to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3. He or she causes physical injury to an operator, driver, or passen-
     5  ger on a bus, taxicab, aerial tramway, subway, or other  motor  vehicle,
     6  used  for  the  transportation  of  persons for hire, or to a school bus
     7  driver, a station agent or ticket agent for  the  entity  providing  the
     8  transportation,  and  he or she knows or reasonably should know that the
     9  victim, in the case of an operator, driver, or agent, is engaged in  the
    10  performance of his or her duties, or is a passenger; or
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01467-01-3